In+ersec+ion for Spatial People

Via AGISRS, I learned that last Friday was released Opticks 4.7.0, an open source remote sensing and imagery application that we mentioned a few times in the past. Opticks's IDL, Spectral and Python extensions were also updated.

Instead of the what's new, here's a reminder of what Opticks is according to their main page:

• Free and open source
• Supports the following file formats: NITF 2.0/2.1, GeoTIFF, ENVI, ASPAM/PAR, CGM, DTED, Generic RAW, ESRI Shapefile, HDF5, AVI, MPEG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP
• Zoom, pan, rotate spatially large datasets
• Quickly layer GIS features, annotations, results, and other information over your data to provide context
• Many image display controls such as colormap, histogram, transparency, etc.
• Support for datasets larger than four gigabytes
• Analysts can quickly combine steps using graphical wizards
• Support for processing data in it's native interleave of BIP, BSQ or BIL
• Get extensions to drop in new capability.